The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


google search for The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete

Return to Master Book Index.

Page
1022 1023 1024 1025 1026

Quick Jump
1 306 613 919 1225

will put the whole human race in great anxiety, peril and death. To  
many that seek them, after many sorrows they will give delight, and  
to those who are not in their company, death with want and  
misfortune. This will lead to the commission of endless crimes; this  
will increase and persuade bad men to assassinations, robberies and  
treachery, and by reason of it each will be suspicious of his  
partner. This will deprive free cities of their happy condition;  
this will take away the lives of many; this will make men torment  
each other with many artifices deceptions and treasons. O monstrous  
creature! How much better would it be for men that every thing  
should return to Hell! For this the vast forests will be devastated  
of their trees; for this endless animals will lose their lives.  
(Of Fire.)  
One shall be born from small beginnings which will rapidly become  
vast. This will respect no created thing, rather will it, by its  
power, transform almost every thing from its own nature into  
another.  
(Of Ships which sink.)  
Huge bodies will be seen, devoid of life, carrying, in fierce haste,  
a multitude of men to the destruction of their lives.  
(Of Oxen, which are eaten.)  
1024  


Page
1022 1023 1024 1025 1026

Quick Jump
1 306 613 919 1225